Transparency-Accountability/Webinars

Past Webinars

2019

16 May 2019

Jeanine Finn, Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Claremont Colleges presented Getting Access to Data in Open Records: Introduction to FOIA, State Laws, How to Get Started, & Why. The slides are available here and detailed minutes are available here

17 April 2019

Meg Phillips, External Affairs Liaison for the National Archives, presented on "National Archives Records: NARA Laws, Access, and Public Involvement in Decisions." You can watch her webinar on YouTube.

2018

12 April 2018

A special presentation on Federal Records Transparency and Immigrant Justice (recording available here), featuring presentations by Emily Creighton (Deputy Legal Director, American Immigration Council), Victoria López (senior staff attorney at the National Prison Project of the ACLU), and Guillermo Cantor (Director of Research, American Immigration Council). Panelists offered an overview of FOIA and records transparency in the context of immigrant justice work; discuss how advocacy, research, and legal challenges to unlawful agency practices are informed by FOIA work; and touch on the particular challenges and rewards of pursuing transparency work in the Trump era.